Most of us are blind to how much unnatural levels of browsing by grazers impact the landscape. Not only by shaving vast areas bare, but shaping what survives. On this young oak that somehow managed to 'get away', for eg, the browse line is clear. There's an omnipresent, invisible strimmer at work.

Today like every day is just mossy

That's funny because I feel the same way about smart and well-intentioned people falling for a scam being perpetrated by Silicon Valley guys who have done nothing but run scams that made them rich after the tech press told everyone that these guys were geniuses.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 4d ago

feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does

How serotonin neurons wire the forebrain after birth: 4D whole-brain maps of mouse serotonin axons show region-specific growth plus a brain-wide, synchronized wave of innervation, lined up with a surge in wiring-molecule expression at postnatal day 4. Adams, Ren et al., PNAS #neuroskyence

System-level synchronization and subtype-specific modules govern brain-wide serotonin axon innervation | Frontier

The authors combined whole-brain developmental projection maps with single-cell transcriptomics to work out how serotonin neurons wire the forebrain after…

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When it comes to future sea-level rise, Antarctica matters. Now researchers who looked at hundreds of thousands of potential emissions futures and the impact of each on the ice sheet found that Antarctica’s ice loss this century is locked in. theconversation.com/antarcticas-...

Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere

The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.

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Bracken is open for submissions! Send us your poems, poetry translations, and visual art October 1 - November 30. See our guidelines here: www.brackenmagazine.com/submit.

Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle

Optical illusions trick enemies into misjudging the insects’ speed and direction

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OMG you have GOT to be kidding me

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.

A new paper from our group/my boss is out in Science today! It looks at the effects of massive, snowball-earth type glaciers on subsurface geotherms and thermochronology. If you are going to GSA Becky is giving a talk on this work as well. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Snowball refrigeration of Earth’s crust mimics glacial erosion

Glaciation cools the crust by setting its surface temperature to 0°C or well below. During the Cryogenian Snowball Earth glaciations, these conditions were in place long enough to cool the entire crus...

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so on brand for Meta

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · last wk.

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

Huge day for enhanced geothermal: $FRVO has delivered power to the grid from Cape Station, a first for EGS. Congrats to @timlatimer.bsky.social and the rest of the team. h/t @isaiahbishop.bsky.social

Fervo Energy Achieves First Power at Cape Station, a Landmark Moment for the Future of Enhanced Geothermal Systems - Fervo Energy

HOUSTON, September 24, 2026 – Fervo Energy (Nasdaq: FRVO), a global pioneer of next-generation geothermal energy, today announced that Cape Station, its

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NEW ANALYSIS: Charging hubs in a small share of locations could cover most energy demand from electric trucks across Europe. 🚛 The ICCT and @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social have quantified charging demand from battery electric trucks across the EU, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK between 2030 and 2045. ⚡

I’ve always disliked this guy

Donna Stern@dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 2w ago

It is an absolute outrage that John Sununu wants to gamble with your future. His privatization scheme puts Social Security taxes at risk in the stock market. NH seniors need protection, not Wall Street roulette. #BlueWaveIn40Days #momsky#sheshed

There is something soulless about dubbed movies

jesus christ. the new president of the university is closing down the biggest, oldest repository of fossils, specimens and artifacts with a single month's notice because I guess, archaeology is too woke or something? where the fuck is it all going to go? into the bin? get mad about it:

Wren@satanicwren.bsky.social · 2w ago

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

A study in Nature Neuroscience shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors, not one. One forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. go.nature.com/3Vb6Jwk #Neuroskyence 🧪

I have no words for Musk and Space X getting to destroy a second national wildlife refuge. These are all disgusting, horrible people.

Women are half the population, and yet the majority of physicians have NO training on how to treat women with menopause. I talked to Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Kelly Casperson about how women are demanding better, and why Congress should PASS my bill to invest in menopause research & training.

"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEy

My Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World

“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ...

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Bluesky remains unbeaten

Steven (with a PH)@sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 2w ago

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Ah, my all time favorite epigraph.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.

walking around with our coaches yesterday and telling girls they were doing good and looked good and seeing them really take it to heart really meant so much to me. i love it so much!!!

onion person@junlper.beer · 2w ago

been seeing people confused why tgirl baseball is taking off and i think its because its fun to hang out in a park and drink beers with friends while your friends who’ve been practicing and getting better at a sport play phenomenal baseball for you

Issue 93 cover reveal! Available to read on Monday September 21. Cover art by Victoria Ojo

This trend really annoys me. If I am already paying for a service, I don't want adverts too. Here's the deal: I watch for free but give you my time to watch your ads, or I pay a subscription or licence fee. Not both. Corporate rip-offs stop when we stop complying.

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

Cool, cool. Cue everyone who feels morally superior because a) they have never been in this situation, and b) they certainly wouldn’t handle it in a way that others might learn something from. BTW when I was 16 I was ALWAYS enumerating the ways my parents fucked up my life. That’s 16 for you .

I'm a literature professor, I can understand all this as story. "Full-scale AI takeover" goes way back (The Matrix>Neuromancer>Frankenstein). We fit the information into the genres and tropes we're already familiar with. We *love* to read the story that begins or ends We Are Doomed.

Tim Watson@timwatson.bsky.social · last mo.

it's stories all the way down

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 2w ago

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

In response to the disappearance of St Mary’s Glacier in Colorado, I propose we all read: bookshop.org/p/books/do-g...

Do Glaciers Listen? Anniversary Edition: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination

This anniversary edition of Julie Cruikshank's acclaimed work demonstrates the ways in which natural and cultural histories become entangled. Do Glaciers Listen? examines conflicting understandings of...

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Honestly, as I prepare to contribute a small amount to a friend’s kid’s honeymoon fund, I’m thinking there really should be a gift registry for divorce.

Yeah, this is terrible news. One of the first landmarks I visited when I moved to Colorado in 1981.

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oh fuck